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Fifth seed UNC broke open a tight first half with a 14-5 run that closed out the first 20 minutes, and held off a couple of Boston College second-half charges to top the 12 seed, 81-63, on Wednesday in the second round of the ACC Tournament.

The No. 8 UVA field hockey team (12-6, 4-2 ACC) closed out its regular-season Atlantic Coast Conference slate with a 5-3 loss at No. 14 Boston College (12-5, 3-3 ACC) on Friday (Oct. 24), but will still finish the year as the ACC regular-season co-champions.

Bridgewater responded to an early Southern Virginia score with three goals before the halftime break and the Eagles went on to defeat the Knights, 3-1, Tuesday afternoon in non-conference women’s soccer action.

Bridgewater men’s soccer wins in OT: Junior midfielder Ricky Capuano scored the winning goal early in the first overtime Saturday afternoon to lift Bridgewater College to a 3-2 victory over Randolph-Macon College in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) opener for both squads.

Christian Sheridan, an associate professor of English at Bridgewater College, is one of a select group of faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Center for Hellenic Studies to participate in an Ancient Greece in the Modern Classroom seminar on Homer’s Odyssey.

On March 19, National Certified Nurses Day, 33 Augusta Health nurses were recognized for their professionalism, leadership and commitment to excellent patient care for the national certifications they earned.

Over the past several months, 38 Augusta Health employees earned national certifications in their areas of expertise. Certifications require demonstration of extensive knowledge in a subject area, usually by examination.

Bridgewater College will celebrate the 134 years since its founding on Tuesday, April 1, presenting three awards during the 11 a.m. Founder’s Day Convocation in the Carter Center for Worship and Music.

Behind 6 1/3 shutout innings from Nathan Kirby (So., Midlothian, Va.), the third-ranked UVa. baseball team rolled to an 8-1 victory over Boston College Friday at Davenport Field. Virginia (13-3, 3-1 ACC) came within an out of a shutout as five Cavalier pitchers limited BC (6-10, 0-4) to six hits.

A regulation-ending 13-1 run by #14 seed Boston College sent the game to overtime, but #11 seed Georgia Tech took control in the final minute of the extra session to pull out a 71-67 win in the final game of the first round of the 2014 ACC Tournament.

The UVa. women’s basketball team (12-11, 5-5 ACC) faces Georgia Tech (16-8, 6-5 ACC) on Friday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. in Atlanta, Ga. The game between the Cavaliers and Yellow Jackets was originally scheduled for Thursday.

UVa. improved to 9-1 in the ACC, its best start to a conference season since 1981-82. The Cavaliers won their 14th consecutive home ACC game, the second-longest streak in school history (16 straight home ACC wins from 1980-1982).

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